Samsung F480 Tocco

I love this phone, i think its wonderful, the widgit is awesome, its so easy to use and very touch sensative, i have absolutely no problem texting, i find it easy and fast. the camera is great also. so all in all totally happy!

This phone is good nothing more than that. The camera on it is really bad. So i dont know what the other comment above is on about. My girlfiend and i have got the same phone and the camera on both phones is really poor. When taking a photo the quality looks really good, until you actually press the button to capture the photo. It is so poor quality for a 5mega  pixel camera its shocking. I am going back to phones for you tommorrow and asking for a refund or a swap for a different phone. If you dont use your phone for pictures, then its good.....but if you do use your phone for photos, then dont bother wasting your money. Trust me!

I have just returned my Tocco - found the touchscreen very intuitive and the phone feels very substantial and slim, however a few things let the phone down

1 - sound quality from earpiece very tinny during calls to the extent I had to phone people back using my home phone.

2 - camera quality poor.  I took photos at a wedding the other night and they were worse than the 2MP camera i use at work. Expected more from a 5MP

3 - Don't think there's any way to edit the added word list when texting - very annoying if you don't speak queen's English.  Also, on predictive text when you hold down a key to type a number the '0' key disappears, so if you want to type a '0' then you have to change to numeric mode, then type the '0' then return to predictive - basic error.

I took Tocco 1 back to the shop last week and got it replaced, the replacement was just as bad.  Have now got a C902 which looks slightly more conventional but promising.  

I wish Sony had made the Tocco - would have been a winner.

after battling with a bug ridden Sony p990i (via stuff review) until the end of my contract I knew 4 things I needed;

1 Touchscreen, a absolute must have

2 a really good 5mp snapper or better

3 easy to use OS and text

4 pair up with my excellent tom tom go 910 (NICE ONE STUFF)for text and hands-free

RESULTS

1 The touchscreen is very hard to use with gentleman sized digits constantly hitting wrong symbols

2 The camera is absolutely abysmal in every sense played around with setting for hours and hours to no avail

3 the operating system seems okay at best but no killer apps for me and texting is horrendous for my fingers I operate tower cranes for a living very precise work but for my fingers its just too much of a fiddle

4 after much faffing about I got it to pair with the tom tom hands free is fine but it wont read out my texts while driving constantly shouts at me that the phone wont reply very annoying when doing 70 mph on the M6

MY VERDICT

This phone is getting slam dunked into a parcel tomorrow morning and sent back to orange with a dog poop in it. It does nothing well and everything else terrible good concept, terrible phone. The darn thing has even given my tom tom PMT now I feel harassed in my own car now. And another thing (HAPPY PILLS TIME) AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH that's better. bye everyone

i've got the phone for 48h only but i am a samsung addict for years (after leaving Nokia which i think is great as well).

Inspite of being a samsung product, the navigation system changes with the tocco, it took me a bit more time to find all needed settings. But in 2 days, i think i've been through all config and i'm quite happy with the phone possibilities.

as a woman, i may have small fingers, i don't know if it helps, but i have NO problem with the texting at all.the unsual thing is that i have to look at the phone when texting since i can't feel any key.

as for the camera, i know some other phone have better camera that samsung, but pictures are ok.the quality of the image appearing on the phone is NOT the one of the definitive photo once downloaded to the pc. I guess it is some kind of battery saving or what.there are lots of setting possibilities, have a good look through to find what suits you best. ISO auto gives good quality pictures.

What's annoy me a bit is that my phonebook is normally on my sim, but if i want more options/fields like caller picture or ringtone, my contacts have to be saved on th phone.i don't like this, since i broke a phone once and was quite happy to have saved al my contact on the sim and just had to swap the phone.

i love the touchscreen, i'm definately not disapointed by samsung after all these years. Nice phone, nice gadgets.

Ive owned many fones , this tocco was my first samsung

my first impressions of the fone wer very very good

the touch screen with the vibration feedback is great

so is the interface,texting I found was fine to be honest , not a problem

a couple of days later , is when it started to annoy me

1.no wifi – I use wifi on my n95 all the time so it was a big loss

2.the camera -it has a 5mp camera but compared to the others its a dissapointment

3.3.the music player – it is a nightmare ! No way to search tracks with the first letter , u have to go through all the tracks just to get to the last 1

finnaly : samsung have done great with this touch screen fone i'd even rate it better than the iphone in some areas , but one area it needs to improve , to even compete with the likes of the iphone 3g , n95 8gb

is the music player interface

8.5/10

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I went on the Samsung Tocco in the shop, to test it out for texting and the touch facility. And ever since then I've wanted it.

I found the widgets a bit annoying, but I suppose you can turn them off whenever you want.

The camera seemed okay, but I don't really know what it's like to actually take a picture.

I've been through several Samsungs and recently sold the Samsung G800 for being far too fat.

I'm now on a simple nokia. That i've had NO problems with.

After reading people's reviews I don't know what to expect. I guess if I have problems I can return it, or just simply go back to the trusty Nokia.

I guess everyone's entitled to an opinion and you may find it bad.. but these reviews have given a mixture.

awesome. recommend getting a screen cover and a card. Got it through carphone warehouse and the O2 sim didn't work, tried to get a new one, they tried to make me buy it, bought it again on a cheaper contract and took the first one back. LOVE IT, though.

I just got the Tocco yesterday. I demo'd it first and loved it. Much cheaper than the iphone. I wanted an all in one touch phone but without paying £40-50 a month or a lump sum up front to get one. I got this free for £30 a month with T mobile includes 700 minutes and unlimited texts. The phone did need quite a bit of adjusting epecially the camera which is reasonable. I love the ability to customise it so much. I hate loads of crap on the screen so it was pleasanlty please when it relised i could remove almost everything.

The one downside is that i couldnt add the text message button into the widget screen which hides conveintly in the side and texting is a bit fiddly but most tiuch screen phones are i hear. It stops me from being tempted to text when driving. Internet is great and very fast too. Musically its good but i will get better earphones as it comes with a 3.5 adapter. Despite reading the battery life is poor mine has not even budged yet since yesteday morning and i have made loads of calls and texts plus been downloading a few things too. It seems quite good...

Overall 8.5 outta 10

Had a Tocco for 6 months. On balance it is an OK phone, but still has too many flaws.

+ Looks good

+ Slim

+ Screen is good size

+ Doesn't crash

+ Call quality is fair

+ Reception is fair

+ Durable (excepting screen scratches)

+ For the money (now) it is decent value

+ Can use an 8GB SD micro

+ Battery life is reasonable

- Touch screen has lag, you have to adapt to it.

- Camera is pretty poor, especially viewed on phone.

- Flash is pitiful (and in my case not working now)

- No WiFi

- Memory card and charging ports fiddly

- No car charging cradles available because of above I guess.

- Music player interface poor

- File navigation poor.

- Predictive text programmed by person who has never spoken a whole sentence of English.

- Web browser seems to lock up every 10 mins.

- Web Browser can't render some text.

- Screen quite soft plastic and scratches deeply easily, screen protectors don't stay on and look naff. Thick leathery thing thrown at bin on day one...

I would like to think that it would be possible to get a phone that calls and texts as well as an old Nokia, takes photos like a Sony, has decent internet and isn't 2" thick. This is a nice try but really has too many bugs and failings.